Reading Austen in America

"Austen in America tells the story of America's long love-affair with Jane Austen and her work. Beginning with the first US edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816, Juliette Wells--author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination--goes on to explore Austen's American publication history, correspondence with readers through the ages and the work of curators, promoters and fans of Austen in the 21st century."-- "A vivid history of Jane Austen's American readers and fans, from her own day to the present"--